Globe and MailCanada Dollar Reaches 2-Year High Versus Euro After ECB Rate CutBloombergThe Canadian dollar strengthened to a two-year high against the euro after the European Central Bank cut interest rates to stimulate the bloc's economies. The loonie, as the currency is nicknamed, reached a seven- week high against the greenback, ...European Central Bank Cuts Rates to New LowABC NewsEuro Plummets Below $1.24Wall Street JournalThree central banks take action in sign of alarmReutersThe Associated Press -Fox Newsall 3,392 news articles »

Canada Dollar Reaches 2-Year High Versus Euro After ECB Rate CutJuly 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Canadian dollar strengthened to a two-year high against the euro after the European Central Bank cut interest rates to stimulate the bloc’s economies. The loonie, as the currency is nicknamed, reached a seven-week high against ...07/5/2012 - 2:07 am | View Link

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Facing scrutiny over its practices for responding to sexual assault, a liberal arts college in Iowa has taken the unusual step of asking federal investigators to review whether three cases were handled appropriately.
Grinnell College President Raynard S. Kington asked the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to determine whether the college complied with Title IX, the federal law that bars sex discrimination in education.
[] a student activist group, Dissenting Voices, called it a public relations move to get ahead of negative publicity and a Title IX complaint that it filed Feb.

A version of this piece first appeared at digby's Hullabaloo. GP article archive here. Image: American Petroleum Institute's Brooke Alexander, their trademark Pantsuit Lady
I've written quite a bit (for example, here) about the spokesperson in the ubiquitous American Petroleum Institute (API) ads. She's almost an institution, the way "Flo," the spokesperson for Progressive Insurance, is an institution.

It is easy to get discouraged about the American political scene. Billionaires and big business keep spending absurd amounts in buying up politicians and making sure they win elections. Republicans keep moving to the more and more extreme edges of the right. A lot of Democrats are either bought off by Wall Street, ineffectual, or both.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is no slave to the TelePrompTer (Reuters) After Benjamin Netanyahu's speech let me point you toward Jeffrey Goldberg's analysis. Let me also suggest, again, that differences on Iran policy correspond to answers to this one question: Whether the world of 2015 is fundamentally similar to, or different from, the world of 1938.

AP The Obama administration is against intelligence officials leaking classified information—but some conditions may apply. If you're a CIA analyst who talks to reporters, you might end up serving 30 months in federal prison or facing more. Even a reporter could end up being named a co-conspirator by prosecutors. But if you're a decorated general, a former CIA director, and a former member of the Cabinet, you might get off with a $40,000 fine and two years of probation.